Leaving Delhi

We have spent the last couple of days taking it pretty easy, the trip as a whole has been quite tiring but ultimately worth doing. The first day back in Delhi we just relaxed in the hotel, our extra night ended up being covered by the train ticket refund. Raj, our shady tour operator tried to play it off like he was doing us a favour but we are well aware he is still comfortably ahead. We didn’t end up catching up with Pal for dinner in the end, we were just happy to leave it as it was. On our last day in Delhi we went into the city to Connaught Place for a bit of a wander around. It’s the centre of New Delhi and a bit of a showcase for western style stores and some upmarket local ones. We had some lunch at the United Coffee House, a restaurant that’s been around since the 40’s, it looked like little had changed in the interior but that made it quite charming. The air-con was cold, the food pretty good and the service excellent (plain soda, yes please - kaj). After that we got a new book each as we have gone through a few whilst being on the road. We also had some afternoon tea at a Costa Coffee an international coffee chain. All the caffeine played havoc with us getting to sleep later as we are so desensitised to it... it was worth it though. Our flight left Delhi at 8.55am, we had to be there three hours before and made it in plenty of time as we had an airport transfer organised through our tour.